Pauline Paterson

Associate Professor and Co-programme Director of the Msc in Climate Change and Planetary Health @London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine, U. Of London

London, GB

Dr. Pauline Paterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. Dr. Paterson is the Co-Programme Director of the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health and the Trust in Climate Science Lead at the Confidence Project, LSHTM.Dr. Paterson has been researching public perceptions around climate change and climate action globally, more recently exploring public perceptions and communication of the co-benefits of climate action in the UK.Dr. Paterson has also been researching issues of public confidence in immunisations since 2010. Specific research areas include COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK, views and experiences of vaccinating during pregnancy globally, misinformation narratives online, and public trust in vaccination.Dr. Paterson holds a joint appointment at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London. Dr. Paterson is a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Vaccines and Immunisation, and has an honorary academic contract with UK Health Security Agency.Dr. Paterson has a PhD in Epidemiology, MBA and MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. Her MBA project consisted of two systematic reviews and a case study in Thailand, in collaboration with WHO, exploring health system preparedness to changes in malaria and dengue fever epidemiology as a result of climate change.

Imperial College London

PhD

Imperial College London

MBA